Button-fastener



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.,

CHARLES H. EGGLESTON, OF 'MARSHALL ASSIGN OR 'OF OND-HALF TO EDWARD O.FLY, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

BUTToNFAsTENER- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.293,233, dated February 12, 1884.

` i Application filed June 29, 1883.

(No model.)

To @ZZ whom, it may concern Be it known that I, GnARLns H. EGG-Lnsl TON,a citizen of the United States, residing lat the city of Marshall, inthe county of Calhoun and State of Michigan, have invented a ,new anduseful Shoe-Button Fastener, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in rnetallic fasteners'forattaching buttons to leather or other substances; and the objects of myinvention are, first, to so construct the fastener that the strain willbe'borne by the fasteningprongs equally; and, second, to construct thefastener and button together, so that the fastener cannot becomedetached from the button. I attain these objects by means illustrated inthe accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan View of thefasteningprongs as cut from the metal and before they arebent into theform they assume when attached to the eye of the button. Fig. 2 is anend view of the fastener vwith the button attached, and Fig. 3 is a sideview of the same with the button attached.

Similar letters referto similar parts through- -out the several views.

In Fig. 1 the form of the fastener before bent is clearly shown. It maybe cut from a piece of sheet metal, and have' four prongs, a c a a. Thecenter between the prongs is contracted, asshown at B, in order to fornia staple for holding the eye of the button.

u A shows 'the button having an eye, c, which is attached t the buttonin any suitable manner. The points c a on each end of the blank may beslightly bent toward each other, so that when the prongs are forcedthrough the leather they may the more easily be bent down,

,fastener cannot become detached.

in the form shown in Fig. l, the blank designed to form the button-eyeis placed under and bent around the narrow neck B, until the ends4 oftheeyeblank meet, and so closely that the Y The fastener- 2 4and 3; or theblank may be bent before the eye is attached to the button, if foundprefe'ra` ble. Then the fastener is attached and the button completedwith the eye in place, tl1e The two sets of prongs may be opposite eachother, as shown in Fig. l, or may be so placed that when bent they willfold by each other, if preferred.

I am aware that metallic fastenings for shoe- 4buttons have been in useprior to my invention, and I do not broadly claim the same; but I am.not aware that any buttoirfastener has ever been made with a contractedneck between the sets of prongs to form a staple to receive the eye ofthe button, so that the attachment is equally strong on each side of thebutton-eye; nor am I aware of any button-fastener in use so constructedthat the fastener is permanently attached to the button, the eye be ingattached to the fastener before the eye is attached to the button.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim to have invented, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In combination with the bntton-fastener cHARLEs II. ncennsron.`

Witnesses GnARLEs E. GILL, OLIVER O. PERRIN.

